Heidi Firth Expansion into areas of self… could be the key component to find your inner Guru. Creating change amongst the masses. We cannot continue how we are.
Busying & filling our lives with tasks, items, social engagements, property, STUFF, on the scale that we are. These items bring little to no true satisfaction.
We know this story, it is familiar to most.
But breaking out of this paradigm is the unique transition that few make. The courageous embodiment of living by your words, intentions & a presence greater than yourself, to honor and acknowledge.
Breaking the norm of what exists for us if we follow it, and embarking on that path covered with debris, pain & the crap that we really didn’t want to look at.
Social Media is our biggest catalyst for change, showing us what we need to look at, OR on the equal flip side, showing us what we are running fastest from.
Being in this blessed spirited Silent Retreat, I know for a fact, that I am doing time in the tank. I am doing the work, looking at my shit, and ploughing on through regardless of what shows up. 10 years prior, this would not have been possible for me. I wouldn’t have had the emotional strength & resources. I would’ve surrendered in the throes of my ego story and how I was safely living.
I remember going through my depression journey, it was an achievement to get out of bed for the day. I didn’t look at it as such, I couldn’t look at my day as a whole. I had to take that journey hour by hour, sometimes 30 mins by 30 mins. Anyone who’s experienced depression will understand this simple concept. One simply cannot function further than the short space of ahead, it is just to debilitating and overwhelming. Looking at the whole day is enough to send a sufferer back to the bed from which they came.
The journey of shifting paradigms – created by our parents, their parents, and their parents parents…is one that is embedded within us. It is undeniable and lives within our bodies cellular system. Which is why I agree even more, that this time, is such a special time to be alive. A separation is occurring. A breaking away. We are now in a position to accept that we are more resourced, maybe overly resourced than EVER before. We ARE safe. There is no denying this.
Our only sense of un-safety is from a world that is so ingrained in fear, that the separation from living within fear, by nature, will bring up ours, before the grande ‘hurrah’ of departure. The ones left behind living in this bubble, will kick and scream and manipulate their truth, selling themselves, to try to coax us back to them, to confirm that they are ok, and what they are choosing is ok. Re-feeding the fear within.
But once you’re out. You are out. Like Neo in the Matrix, there is no returning back up the rabbit hole.
What is life like once you’re out? Well friend, this is the great mystery. It is unique. It is magic. It is unwritten. It is messy. But guaranteed, you are in for one heck of an adventure.
Life IS messy.
It’s meant to be!
Look at nature by definition.
It is wild, expansive, life giving, beautiful & everywhere.
Us humans are a part of nature, how could we not be?
There is no us and them.
There is only we.
How and when did this separation occur?
When did you loose your beautiful wild messy self?
Images of child like play conjure up. The days spent playing in the back yard while Mum cooked, cleaned, pottered, created. Dad was doing Dad things and you, well, you played. For hours on end. Messy dirty grass stained feet, the biggest smile and energetic happiness emanating.
Now look at how clean we are. Cleaning products bountiful, streamlined produce in supermarkets vying for attention at their perfection. Neatly mowed lawns and manicured gardens. The commute to work – 1-2 people per car, all heading in the same direction. Eyes down at smart phone, interested in a reality that isn’t happening now, in REAL time. What are we doing people. WAKE UP!!
All these behaviors to keep us separated from who we really are. But this is the thing – we have lost touch with who we are, we’re so fucking lost! If you were uplifted from where you are right here and now, and placed in an unknown wild location with nothing but yourself – how would you cope? What would your primal nature guide you to do? Have you met your primal self? We are so built up in our concrete jungles, surrounded by windows of pretty things down every street. Look at me, buy me, your life will be better with me. HELLO!
It is interesting to ponder isn’t it? The separation between nature & city. And it is. Separation.
I open an invitation to you, to re-wild yourself. And I’m not talking about placing yourself in the wilderness armed with nothing but you – Bear Grylls style. Not yet anywho. Can you spend a day outside in nature without your phone. Can you wear no shoes and feel the earth beneath your feet? Can you forage for food, begin to learn what food grows naturally & is bountiful. Can you visit the local farm from where you purchase your grass-feed, free range meat? Can you rise with the sun & sleep as it goes down.
What are some ways you can connect back into natures rhythms, slowly, realistically before you are really smacked in the face?
